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[Jpost] Iranian mobile networks appeared to go offline on Saturday night amid rising protests in Iran. Videos from across the country showed security forces firing tear gas, clashing protesters and also showed images of Iranian regime figures being burned and people angry that price hikes were allegedly being used to fund foreign wars.
Iran’s protests come after massive protests across the border in Iraq where more than 300 have been killed by security forces. They also come amid protests in Lebanon. Iran has major allies in southern Iraq and Lebanon and Iranians have learned about the protests abroad through their own media, potentially fueling local decisions to rise up.
There’s a map of protest hot spots at the link. Click on the headline, then scroll down..
Protests appeared to begin in Iran’s southwest province of Ahwaz that borders Iraq. Six protesters were reported killed by locals and social media that support them. Because Ahwaz borders Iraq, where there are ongoing protests and because some locals speak Arabic, it is likely the protests were partly spillover. However they targeted slightly different issues, including anger at the Iranian regime and fuel prices. Video showed some important parts of the city engulfed in smoke and fire from various street protests. Gas stations were one target. Locals say fuel prices have risen fifty percent across the country. On November 11 protesters had torn down the Iranian flag in Ahwaz representing larger anti-regime sentiment.
On Saturday protests spread to Tabriz in the north as snow blanketed Tehran. They had also spread to Mashhad, Bandar Abbas on the coast, Khorramshahr, Abadan, Shiraz and Sirjan. Some protesters have targeted President Hassan Rouhani, who has been in power since 2013. Both Rouhani and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei have slammed Israel over the weekend, seeking to distract from the chaos at home. Rouhani has said that the original plan was to increase fuel costs five-fold due to austerity measures at home. Rouhani has also called out corruption recently. He appears to be faltering and unable to control events, fighting off challenges by various rivals.
Videos, which are difficult to confirm, showed protesters burning banks across the country. In Tehran a Maskan bank branch was allegedly burned. Behbahan in Khuzestan province in the south. A video from Shiraz, 320 km to the east of the burning bank, showed hundreds of men rioting. Protesters have shouted against Iranian involvement abroad, even condemning the regime for involvement in supporting Islamic Jihad in Gaza over the recent flare-up with Israel. Some protesters argue that the regime has increased prices to fund Hezbollah in Lebanon and other foreign adventures. They also shout “down with the dictator,” in Tehran. They also chant against paying 3,000 toman a liter, around one dollar, for gas. In Andishe, south of the Caspian sea, people took over a Basij militia headquarters. In Eslamshahr, a twenty minute drive south, people protested against wasting money on “Palestine.” In Chahardangeh, across the city of Tehran to the east of Eslamshahr, people came out in the rain. They did the same in Shahriar, also near Tehran. In the past the Basij has been responsible for suppressing protests. In some areas security forces retreated in the face of protests. In Urmia the Kurdish region people chanted “the enemy is here,” a reference to the regime. Posters of the supreme leader were torn down in other cities. In Isfahan a protester was reported killed.
Iran’s regime has called the protesters vandals. Large spontaneous protests like this have taken place across Iran over the last decade. In December 2017 widespread protests broke out. The regime has generally weathered the storm through using force in some places and letting them sputter out in others. The numerous protests near Tehran may be due to the access to media networks, while the protests in Ahwaz and the Kurdish region may be fueled by other discontent in minority and neglected regions.
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"Chickens...coming hoooome...to roost"
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Confirmed: #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total national internet shutdown; realtime network data show connectivity at 7% of ordinary levels after twelve hours of progressive network disconnections as public protests continue #IranProtests
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somehow duped. Self-deleted
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Persian Spring™ early?
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Note that the article seems to have updated at least once, so we’ll want to check the link later to see if the article should be updated and rolled over to tomorrow. The earlier version noted that five protesters had been killed and 13 injured, and that Iraq was closing the border as a precaution, though goods are still being allowed to transit.
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The secondaries could actually harm cicilians, Rob
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or civilians, even
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Works so well in Caracas. As long as the gun toters are on one side, nothing will change. It's why the Left so desperately wants to yank them here.
[HotAir]...two of the guards who were responsible for checking in on the prisoner every half hour were offered a plea deal by federal prosecutors, but they turned it down and decided to go to trial. You just know there’s got to be more to this story, right? Double suicide?
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Charges dropped, stalled or the long term bureaucratic shuffle seems a coming attraction!
I think they're betting on the fear of what discovery and exculpatory evidence might bring to light, and I think they are making a safe bet.
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You want stand-up guys for something like this, not pansies who are going to wilt the first time the feds glare at them harshly. I'd be curious how long these two had been working at the prison or if they were brought in special for this particular event.
h/t Instapundit
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams called the Electoral College "racist" during remarks Friday at the National Press Club. It's also into fat shaming
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Do you think there's a relationship between the Leftie's attack on the electoral college and the ramping up of illegals getting citizen rights especially voting.
[Babylon Bee] In an interview over the weekend, Hillary Clinton continued to deny any wrongdoing in the various controversies she was involved with during her time as Secretary of State and the 2016 Democratic candidate, claiming her only crime was "stealing the hearts of the American people."
The interviewer asked Clinton if she was guilty of any of the myriad accusations against her when she admitted to being "100% guilty" of being America's sweetheart.
"If being an extremely likable person beloved by every true American is a crime, then lock me up!" she said, laughing. "I'm guilty on all counts! Put me away for years! Throw me in the dungeon and toss the key in the garbage!"
She also confessed to lesser crimes of being "a woman of the people" and "extremely relatable."
"I can't help it if I'm just really good at connecting with the common man, who may only own two or three modest homes and wear suits worth less than $1,000," she said. "I'm just that really down-to-earth kind of person, and you can't blame me for that. It's just who I am, fam!"
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[DW] German authorities have detained an Islamist who was expelled with his family from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... . Ankara has been deporting individuals with alleged affiliation to the "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... " terror outfit to their countries of origin.
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From the washington-austere-islamic-scholar-post?
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Buried the lede-- from the bottom of the article:
Several Democrats have stopped using the term “quid pro quo,” instead describing “bribery” as a more direct summation of Trump’s alleged conduct.
The shift came after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee conducted focus groups in key House battlegrounds in recent weeks, testing messages related to impeachment. Among the questions put to participants was whether “quid pro quo,” “extortion” or “bribery” was a more compelling description of Trump’s conduct. According to two people familiar with the results, which circulated among Democrats this week, the focus groups found “bribery” to be most damning. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the results have not been made public.
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According to two people familiar with the results, the focus groups found “bribery” to be most damning
Not surprising. Extortion is too legalistic and quid pro quo sounds like some sort of calamari dish. You need crimes your constituents are familiar with.
US President Donald Trump has asked Japan to quadruple its payments for US forces stationed there, Foreign Policy reported, citing unnamed current and former US officials, as Washington presses long-standing allies to increase their defense spending.
Washington wants Tokyo to increase annual payments for the 54,000 US troops in Japan to around $8 billion from about $2 billion, Foreign Policy said, citing three unnamed former defense officials. The current agreement expires in March 2021.
The demand was made to Japanese officials during a trip to the region in July by John Bolton, at that time Trump's national security adviser, and Matt Pottinger, who was then the Asia director for the National Security Council, Foreign Policy said.
Why shouldn't we go even further and make a profit on defending other countries? After all, we're a sucker to do at our own expense. Our money can be much better spent at home where our own people can benefit. We spend trillions defending the borders of other countries but cannot defend our own.
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Are you suggesting we mercenary our armed forces for profit, as a national industry and policy, with the government as a business?
BREAKING: The "whistleblower's" attorney has privately informed HPSCI staff that his client, a CIA officer, has not received credible threats, as Schiff has suggested;and he is not at personal risk since he nonetheless has been assigned a government security detail for protection
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Given that "whistleblower" alive can't harm Trump, but "whistleblower" dead could. And given that "elites" have shown themselves willing to do. The guy (girl, non-binary) should be glad of protection. Unless, of course, his protective detail are part of the deep state and have their orders.
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"We're here to protect you from changing your mind. We'd better protect your passport, too. And that six-pack in the fridge looks really hazardous."
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I can imagine the news :
"Oh cripes ! Our whistleblower is dead ! Two Nigerian white supremacists in MAGA caps were seen beating him to death after luring him out with... licorice candy. They were seen clearly by two ... uhh... two other whistleblowers. Informed sources are saying the assasination was carried out..."
h/t Instapundit
Fifty years to the day after the United States launched the second-ever crewed mission to the surface of the moon, Vice President Mike Pence stressed the importance of going back to Earth's nearest neighbor.
During a speech here at NASA's Ames Research Center Thursday (Nov. 14) ‐ the 50th anniversary of the liftoff of the Apollo 12 mission ‐ Pence lauded the many thousands of men and women who helped make the United States' epic moon landings possible so many years ago. And he thanked the Ames workforce, and the rest of NASA, for their labors on the next giant leap as well.
"We will ensure that the next man, and the first woman, on the moon will be American astronauts," Pence told a cheering crowd of Ames employees. "Artemis is here!" I'd like to read Greta Thunberg's response
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..."Do you have any information regarding the President of the United States accepting any bribes?" Republican Congressman Chris Stewart of Utah asked point blank.
"No," Yovanovitch said.
"Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the President of the United States has been involved with at all?"
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The biggest problem Yovanovitch had with Trump was that she felt intimidated by him and her feelings were hurt when she was recalled?
She has no business being an ambassador if she is so thin-skinned and easily intimidated. What's she going to do if she has to deal with NK, China, Iran...Is she going to fold like a wet blanket because her feelings are hurt. Toughen up buttercup and get off the stage.
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[VictoryGirls] No sooner had his name been uttered during the impeachment hearings, when the news breaks that Rudy Giuliani is under investigation.
"Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is being investigated by federal prosecutors for possible campaign finance violations and a failure to register as a foreign agent as part of an active investigation into his financial dealings, according to three U.S. officials.
The probe of Giuliani, which one official said could also include possible charges on violating laws against bribing foreign officials or conspiracy, presents a serious threat to Trump’s presidency from a man that former national security adviser John Bolton has called a "hand grenade.""
The officials are named in this breaking news story from Bloomberg. Oh wait, they aren’t. It’s all from anonymous sources.
Giuliani’s name has been waived around quite a bit since all this impeachment mess started taking off. Because he dared to do as the President asked, and act as an envoy in talks with Ukrainian officials, he’s done something BAD! As if the Democrats nor media had ever heard of back channel communications before?
Back channel communications are part and parcel of the political landscape and have been for centuries. Benjamin Franklin went to France and England prior to the Declaration of Independence to gain support and assistance for the American cause. FDR used numerous back channel communications prior to and during World War II. Reagan did the same when trying to get the Soviet Union to back down.
It is a fair bet that Obama used back channels to get things rolling with his craptastic Iran Deal and Paris Agreement. How else were they able to get things arranged for transporting those pallets of cash in the dead of night? How do you know you're approaching the target? The flack increases.
h/t Instapundit
Inside the impeachment inquiry is a classic satire of democratic politics struggling to get out. (I would like to take up Quigley on Evidence. For the moment I will only observe that Quigley should find his place in a sequel to My Cousin Vinny.)
On the substance of yesterday’s hearing in the impeachment inquiry hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, I wondered: wasn’t it only yesterday that the Obama administration refused to provide lethal military aid to the Ukraine? Obama, as I recall, didn’t want to ruffle Putin’s feathers. That sounds like an impeachable offense by itself.
Now support of lethal military aide appears to have become a holy sacrament in the evolving Democratic orthodoxy, one with its own martyrs and rites and hymns. You know, like abortion and LGBTQ "rights" and detachment from biological reality (or from reality, period).
I am somewhat surprised by how little the evolution of Democratic Party orthodoxy on the Ukraine has been noted. This aspect of Obama foreign policy has been deposited down the memory hole. Miranda Devine, however, draws on her knowledge of ancient history to note the evolution in her New York Post column addressing the so-called whistleblower.
Digression: The identity of the "whistleblower" is apparently known by everyone in DC except House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, although the "whistleblower" consulted with Schiff’s staff before filing his "complaint." Something tells me that Chairman Schiff is not entirely on the level. End of digression.
Reviewing the testimony before the House Intelligence Committee yesterday, Devine writes:
[T]here was something missing in [the two House Intelligence Committee witnesses’] description of "alarm" at the withholding of US military aid to Ukraine.
For all their concern about Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russia, they were remarkably sanguine about the Obama administration’s inaction after Russia annexed Crimea and began aggressing into eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko went to Washington and begged for military assistance but the Obama-Biden administration refused, out of deference to Moscow.
Poroshenko complained at the time: "one cannot win a war with blankets."
This was surely the low point of Ukrainian-US relations, not Trump’s phone call in July.
Despite the witnesses’ dissatisfaction with President Trump’s Ukraine policy, it was President Trump who approved the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
So if concern for Ukraine is not the real motivation behind the diplomatic community’s alarm about Trump, all that’s left is protecting the Bidens.
Without a real whistleblower we can only think the worst.
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My guess:
I've been thinking about folks like Soros leveraging nihilistic groups and situations for currency and corporate stock or currency shorting type chaos.
He doesn't need to see positive end results in places like the Ukraine or Hong Kong to make money off of the chaos. Same with anti-fa or neo-nazis or any other nihilistic actors.
Soros himself was the king of currency arbitrage .
Now American politicians of any party are ideal partners as enablers of nihilistic actors that get some loot in the process.
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These people give new meaning to the term, rank hypocrisy. Not to mention incoherence, bad faith and general stupidity.
It was Zero who secretly assured Medvedev and Putin in March 2012 that he would renege in our promise to provide Patriot missiles to Poland. Trump reversed that decision.
It was Zero who refused lethal aid to Ukraine. Trump reversed that decision.
To say Trump is "a Russian asset" is beyond mendacious. It's a despicable lie that redirects the public away from Obama-Biden's incoherence, incompetence and corruption.
They think we're stupid. What a complete and utter Shitshow. F--- these morons.
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If Trump came up with an immortality serum, the dems would demand a Logan's Run type of future. Not that they aren't doing that anyway...
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Look how close Hillary came?
When it comes down to putting an "I'm with Her" bumper sticker on their cars and voting for her once (or more) times, yes, they are that stupid. The pitiful viewership for the impeachment hearings shitshow shows that as soon as an attention span and ability to follow even a deeply flawed excuse for an argument is involved, they are a bit too stupid.
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How do we know that a "whistleblower" even exists. Perhaps the WB is just a Schiff imaginary friend.
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Of course it's about protecting the Bidens. Because of the Bidens get the law enforcement attention they deserve, questions might be asked about the activities of all the other DC families, and the whole racket might be brought to an end.
The Democrat party (with their GOPe enablers) is organized crime, and the sooner we recognize that and act appropriately, the sooner we can get back to teaching people how to be free.
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[IsraelTimes] Army says it strikes terror group, which sat out last round of fighting as Israel traded blows with Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , after 2 rockets fired at southern city hours earlier.
The Israel Defense Forces attacked Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror targets in Gazoo
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After 3000+ years of dealing with these people, I would think Jews would understand the concept of Hudna. Granted the term arose with Mo, but it merely enshrined the pre-existing cultural imperative of treachery.
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On Friday Hamas acknowledged that one of its operatives had been killed during fighting this week.
The Izz Ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, said Ahmed Abdel al-A’al was one its members. A statement from the group did not clarify whether he was taking part in fighting when he died. According to the military wing, al-A’al, 23, and two of his teenage brothers were killed in a "Zionist bombardment" on Wednesday.
Oh NOES! 66% Innocent Goatherders killed™! What will we tell Herb? Apologizing in advance...I denounce myself.
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In the world press, the headline would have read "Israel violates ceasefire by firing back at Hamas after ro and kets fired at Israel."
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That should be "rockets fired at Israel "
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Talking about me again when I'm not around. In the words of Sally Field: "You like me! You really really like me!"
But since I've been summoned, I have to question if people even know the difference between Hamas fighters and innocent Afghan civilians who work in agriculture and have no connection whatsoever to terrorism?
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working in agriculture. you mean growing poppies?
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I have to question if people even know the difference
When a Hellfire races toward an group of sunni sasquatches at mach 1, they are most likely good targets, terrorists who must be destroyed wherever sighted. When a GBU released on information from Afghan local intelligence hits noncombatants unwittingly, that's on the faulty intelligence and Afghan callousness with their own peoples' lives. That's your difference.
The IDF are surgical, they don't use local intelligence or sloppy operators to 'set up' their kills. Even if they didn't the world would be better off if every paleostinian motherf↻cker was dead.
Everybody else here feels for 'innocents'. Partly why everybody here supported a pull-out from Afghanistan and Syria. Sure, we can be a dark bunch of cynical bastards and toss around the occasional severed hand at this barbecue. But that doesn't mean everybody here condones killing people because they're 'the other'.
If you ask a racist bigot like me though, every muslim has a connection to terrorism whether he wants it or not.
Commas matter. When addressing someone, put a comma between the comment and the name of the person addressed.
Muslim terrorists are fond of surrounding themselves with civilians whenever they’re not pretending to be civilians themselves — this is not a specifically Afghan behaviour, and is well-known by those who’ve been paying attention to the War on Terror for the past several generations. The Geneva Conventions specifically blame combatants who embed themselves in the civilian population for any injury to the civilians that results when the other side has to go through the civilians to get to them.
There is a cartoon from some years ago which, frustratingly, I cannot find, showing an IDF soldier standing protectively in front of a woman holding a baby, all facing an Arab jihadi hiding behind an Arab woman holding her baby. That is the essence of our discussion: whose fault is it that the Arab woman and her baby were harmed when the shooting started, but the Israeli woman and hers were not?
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Remember your vocative assholes.
Defend our grammatical castles!
Start thanking us morons
And share our abhorrence
Of unwashed and ignorant vassals!
[IsraelTimes] Resolution passes 170-2, with only Israel and US opposing it; one of 8 measures concerning Israel passed by body, with no actions against any other country.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... voted Friday to extend the mandate of its controversial agency for Paleostinian refugees in a move opposed by Israel and the United States.
In a General Assembly vote, the UN’s Fourth Committee approved extending UNRWA’s mandate until 2023. The vote was 170-2, with only Israel and the US voting against.
Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Canada, Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Naura and Vanuatu all abstained.
The vote was one of eight resolutions concerning Israel approved Friday by the Fourth Committee, which did not take up measures on any other states.
UNRWA was set up in the years after more than 700,000 Paleostinians were expelled or fled their lands during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel. It has repeatedly had its mandate extended since then.
Israel accuses the organization of perpetuating the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict by extending refugee status to millions of descendants, rather than the status only to the original refugees as is the norm with most refugee populations worldwide.
The Trump administration has made similar criticism of UNRWA and in 2018 suspended and later cut all funding to the agency.
UNRWA disputes the criticism and says the services it provides would otherwise not be available to Paleostinians.
We view this vote as an unequivocal rejection of a malicious and cynical campaign led by the Trump administration and Israel to abolish UNRWA and revoke the inalienable rights of Paleostine refugees," Paleostinian Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi said in a statement.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... praised the vote, according to the official Wafa news site.
The foreign minister of Jordan, which houses a large number of Paleostinian refugees, also hailed the passage of the resolution.
Among the eight resolutions passed Friday was one condemning Israel for its control over the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, as well another approving a "special committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. of the Paleostinian people and other Arabs of the Occupied territories."
UN Watch, a pro-Israel monitor group, condemned the votes.
"The UN’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal," UN Watch director Hillel Neuer said in a statement.
Neuer also criticized the resolutions on UNRWA for not mentioning Pierre Krahenbuhl, who resigned last week as the agency’s head over alleged misconduct.
Krahenbuhl is one of several senior UNRWA officials being investigated as part of a wide-ranging probe. An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the agency, which has also faced a financial crisis after US funding cuts.
The report said the allegations include senior management engaging in "sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives." Krahenbuhl himself was alleged to have been romantically involved with a colleague appointed in 2015 to a newly created role of senior adviser after an "extreme fast-track" process, the report said.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the reports on alleged mismanagement at UNRWA lent credence to its criticism of the agency and called for a full release of the probe’s findings.
A number of countries suspended their contributions pending the outcome of the probe into alleged mismanagement.
[IsraelTimes] New York City’s Hate Crimes Task Force takes Mohib Hoque into custody after he pelts woman and child, synagogue worshipers.
New York police have arrested an 18-year-old Brooklyn male in connection with egg-throwing attacks on Jews in the borough.
The city’s Hate Crimes Task Force took Mohib Hoque into custody late Wednesday night, WCBS-TV reported. He was charged with three hate crimes, including assault, and reckless endangerment, the local Jewish news website Vos Iz Neias reported.
A mother and child walking in the Borough Park neighborhood were among those targeted, with one of them hit in the back, as were worshipers leaving a synagogue. The eggs hit the building.
Brooklyn Councilman Chaim Deutsch in a statement Wednesday thanked the Hate Crimes Task Force for its "swift work" in apprehending a suspect.
"We are sending a clear message that hatred and bias of any kind will not be tolerated in New York City," he wrote. "No stone will be left unturned in the pursuit of the perpetrators."
The city has seen a rash of anti-Semitic crimes in recent months, with over half of all hate crimes in New York City targeting Jews so far this year.
[Rudaw] Russia deployed 40 military vehicles and 160 military police to a helicopter base it recently established in Qamishli, northern Syria, according to a Syrian military source.
The deployment was to a newly-established Russian base in the city, the military source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Rudaw late on Friday.
Zvezda TV, affiliated with Russia’s Defense Ministry, said on Thursday that Russia had set up a helicopter base at Qamishli’s airport to increase their control over incidents happening on the ground, Rooters reported. At the time, the ministry had deployed just three helicopters, but expected to increase its presence.
"Right now it’s a small base to facilitate Russian operations in northeastern Syria, but potentially this could come in handy for Russian operations east of the Euphrates if and when the US withdraws completely from Syria," said Vladimir Frolov, a senior former Russian diplomat, according to Rooters.
Qamishli is under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), though the Syrian regime has kept hold of the airport and a small neighbourhood.
The SDF-affiliated North Press Agency confirmed Friday’s deployment, adding that it includes a Pantsir surface-to-air missile system.
Russian military police are now present along the north Syria-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... border as part of an agreement with Ankara to end Turkey’s military incursion that was launched after US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... announced he was pulling American troops out of their positions in northern Syria. Under the deal, Turkey and Russia conduct joint patrols of the border, Syrian regime troops are deployed to the north, and the SDF pull back some 32 kilometres south of the border.
Despite the ceasefire deal, daily festivities are happening.
After pulling US forces out of northern Syria, and thus leaving Kurdish allies exposed to Turkey’s attack, Trump sent troops back into eastern Syria in order to take control of oil fields in Deir ez-Zor province.
Near the key town of Kobane, Russian military police have moved into an airfield recently evacuated by the Americans.
"Our unit has begun guarding the airfield and the military base and patrolling the perimeter," said a senior military police inspector, TASS news reported on Friday.
One of their first tasks was to ensure the Americans didn’t leave any surprises behind. "De-miners are currently checking the facility for bombs. We don’t know what traps and surprises the former owners of the base could have left behind," he added.
Brett McGurk, former US presidential envoy to the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), said in a tweet that "Russia now also owns the airstrip we built."
"Kobani is a predominantly Kurdish area and site of the turning point against ISIS in 2015. This military facility was later critical to the defeat of ISIS’s so-called caliphate. Unfortunately for the Kurds, there’s no oil in the area," he added.
[Rudaw] Northern Syria is not Kurdish, Syria’s Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... said in an interview with Russian news outlets.
In the interview aired on Friday, Assad touched on a number of topics, including that of Kurds and their forces in northern and northeastern Syria.
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[Rudaw] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has carried out another targeted operation in "repatriating" an Iranian runaway from abroad.
This is the second operation of its kind in the space of a month, projecting the notion that the Guards reach could grip anywhere in the world.
The operation, carried out by the operatives of the IRGC Intelligence Organisation, targeted Rasul Danialzadeh, a steel tycoon closely affiliated with the younger brother of President Hassan Rouhani
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[ToloNews] This follows the postponement of a swap of Haqqani Network prisoners for two Western professors held by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , Taliban sources told Rooters.
A plan to swap two Western hostages with three Taliban prisoners has been postponed, an Afghan government official told Rooters on Friday, and Taliban sources said the group had moved the Westerners to a "new and safe place".
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[ToloNews] Mohammad Afzal, police chief of Takhar’s Warsaj district, was killed along with three bodyguards in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... ambush on the Takhar-Baghlan highway on Friday morning, Jawid Basharat, a front man for the Baghlan police chief, said.
The incident happened on the Takhar- Baghlan highway on Friday morning while he was heading to Kabul province, Basharat said.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... he did not provide further details about the incident.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s of killed 6 Talibs in southern Kandahar and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces of Afghanistan, the military officials said Friday.
The officials further added an airstrike killed 4 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Maiwand district of Kandahar.
A similar airstrike killed 2 Talibs in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, the officials said, adding that an airstrike in Rodat district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. destroyed a small cache of weapons of ISIS Khurasan group.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... the Special Forces arrested 4 Talibs during a raid in Pashtun Zarghun district of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province.
The officials also added that the Special Forces destroyed a small cache of weapons of Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Maiwand district of Kandahar province.
With its economy crippled by U.S. sanctions, #Iran introduced a gasoline rationing program and raised fuel prices at midnight Nov. 15, @FRANCE24 reported. https://t.co/3h9QDiokSA
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday admitted for hearing a petition challenging the government's condition of furnishing indemnity bonds in order to secure the removal of ailing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... 's name from the Exit Control List (ECL).
The court had reserved its judgement on the admissibility of the petition in the afternoon.
After declaring the plea as maintainable, the LHC initially summoned lawyers from both sides to present arguments on the merits of the petition on Monday. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... upon request from PML-N's lawyers, the court fixed the next hearing of the petition for 11:30am tomorrow (Saturday).
At the outset of today's hearing, the court asked if the federal government had submitted its written reply, to which the government's lawyer, Additional Attorney General (AAG) Chaudhry Ishtiaq A Khan, responded in the affirmative.
The court asked that a copy of the response be given to the petitioner's lawyer and told them that if they needed, they could take time to read the government's response.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] Last week witnessed developments at the political level suggesting the start of a serious international movement to pressure the Iraqi government to meet the demonstrators` demands and give up violence and repression in the street.
This move began since the UN representative in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert announced that the bloodshed in Iraq was horrendous and could not be tolerated. It reached the White House's call for early elections in Iraq, which implied the lifting of US support for Adel-Abdul Mahdi's government.
This is no longer a secret for the Iraqi government, which did not formally respond to the statement. An official of Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: "The recent US statement issued by the White House is lifting support for the Iraqi government, and demanding its removal by calling for early elections "
Significantly, the day after the White House statement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo telephoned Abdel-Mahdi for the first time since protests erupted in Iraq on October 1.
Although the state media did not give details of what happened between the two men over the phone, Abdul-Mahdi rushed hours after the call was revealed to give a speech before the cabinet, broadcast on state TV. His speech was almost about demonstrations and general developments in the country and the program and reform projects that he has been talked about, frequently.
Abdul-Mahdi said as usual: "A several-months-old government cannot be responsible for corruption," but stressed that the country needs constitutional amendments and reform of the electoral system.
After Abdul-Mahdi`s speech, the cabinet decided to postpone the elections of the provincial councils, while approved the draft laws of the Electoral Commission and the Elections Law of the House of Representatives.
Developments indicate a tendency to internationalize the Iraq issue if the government insists on pursuing its policy and trying to take time to extend its life
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[Asia Times] While Hanoi threatens an arbitrary complaint at The Hague, Beijing avers its competing sea claims are rooted in ‘historical fact’
The problem, of course, is that China would not likely recognize any international arbitration award perceived as inimical to its interests. Beijing made that stance clear in July 2016 when The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruled in favor of the Philippines over China.
According to that landmark ruling, China’s so-called “nine-dash line” map, which delineates claims that encompass nearly 90% of the South China Sea, has no validity under international law, including UNCLOS. China ignored the fact that it has signed and ratified UNCLOS, and flatly rejected the ruling.
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China occupied Vietnam's Paracel Islands in 1974 when its troops seized a South Vietnamese garrison. The Islands had once served as a French Foreign Legion outpost, and had a burial ground there. No evidence can be found to prove the USA ever protested the Chinese invasion of territory that was undoubtedly Vietnamese.
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On November 13th, SpaceX revealed that a planned static fire test of a Crew Dragon’s powerful abort thrusters was completed without issue, a strong sign that the company has successfully redesigned the spacecraft to prevent a catastrophic April 2019 explosion from reoccurring.
Pending a far more extensive analysis, Wednesday’s static fire should leave SpaceX on track to perform Crew Dragon’s next major flight test before the end of 2019.
In an unexpected flourish of transparency, SpaceX and NASA published photos of the Crew Dragon capsule’s static fire test just a few hours after it was completed, an excellent sign that the ‘quick-look’ data analysis immediately following the test was extremely positive. Spaceflight Now was first to visually confirm that the test had occurred, publishing a photo that revealed a whitish cloud of smoke produced by the static fire around 3:15 pm EST (20:15 UTC).
Had a failure similar to the April 2019 explosion occurred, that cloud would have likely been tinged red by unburnt dinitrogen tetroxide (NTO) oxidizer, and the different appearance of November 13th’s exhaust cloud was seen as the first tentative sign that this static fire had gone more successfully.
Alongside photos of the SuperDraco thruster test published by NASA and SpaceX shortly after its conclusion, SpaceX confirmed that the test was completed without issue. Regardless of whether everything performed exactly as intended, this means that factory-fresh Crew Dragon capsule C205 made it through the test unscathed, likely securing SpaceX and NASA a large volume of uninterrupted telemetry data, as well as the hardware itself.
Just hours after C205’s static fire was completed, NASA published a detailed update, confirming that the tests were finished without any immediately apparent issues.
Now, SpaceX and @NASA will
1⃣ Review data from the test
2⃣ Perform hardware inspections
3⃣ Establish launch date for In-Flight Abort Test
[Asia Times] Action comes on the eve of Joint Chiefs visit in Japan with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resolve Tokyo-Seoul spat
For the first time since September, a US warship has transited the Taiwan Strait.
The move by the USS Chancellorsville, a guided-missile cruiser, is likely to irk China, which views the island of Taiwan as a breakaway province, Fox News reported.
“Guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Nov. 12 (local time) in accordance with international law. The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” said Cmdr. Reann Mommsen, spokesperson for the US 7th fleet.
“The US Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows,” he added.
The transit comes as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley visits Japan for a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to help repair diplomatic relations with South Korea after a recent spat over intelligence sharing between Tokyo and Seoul, according to the Fox report shared by Real Clear Defense online.
“All interactions between [Chinese] ships and aircraft were professional and routine” during the transit, a Navy official told Fox News.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is set to begin on Wednesday a four-nation Asia tour with stops in South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, according to the Pentagon.
The Taiwan Strait transit was the ninth by the US Navy this year. The last one occurred in late September, when the USS Antietam, another guided-missile cruiser conducted a similar transit.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] In response to escalated, student-involved violence during Hong Kong anti-government demonstrations and "riots," Taiwan’s Ministry of Education has moved to evacuate over 500 students from the semi-autonomous city via government-chartered flight.As of Friday, nearly half of the Taiwanese student body attending universities in Hong Kong have returned to their home state, according to a November 15 announcement from Taipei.
Police-protester festivities have increased and violence has reached new levels within the past week, prompting the Hong Kong Education Bureau to declare school closures until November 18.
Of the estimated 1,021 Taiwanese students studying in Hong Kong, the Ministry of Education reported a total of 303 are studying at the Chinese University of Hong Kong - which was barricaded and has been the site of several police-student festivities throughout this week..
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PRC also moving students from Taiwan which obviously isn't part of the HK protests. Nothing like a short, victorious war to smooth out the rough spots in the proletariat.
[DAWN] A man arrested by police for allegedly sexually assaulting children is also suspected of kidnapping and assaulting two more victims, a tea vendor and a labourer, who he allegedly kidnapped, drugged and assaulted at his home in Bahria Town.
Separate FIRs in both cases were lodged against the suspect on Thursday. He has already been arrested in another case and was remanded into police custody for five days on Wednesday.
In the police’s preliminary investigation into the first case, the suspect confessed to sexually assaulting 30 children in Pakistain. The investigation also found that he had been deported from Italia and the United Kingdom after being imprisoned for child sexual abuse.
Two more cases have now come to light after the police offered to help each of the man’s victims and said that if they do not want to become complaints in the FIRs the police will do so instead.
On Thursday, a relative of an 11-year-old boy told Rawat police that the child, a tea vendor in Bahria Town Phase VIII, had been missing for two and a half months.
The man told Dawn that ever since the child disappeared, he and other family members had been searching for him in the Khanna area. He said that when the child was released, he told them he was drugged and assaulted by the suspect for two months.
He said in the FIR that he thought the child may have been kidnapped by the suspect, since he has been accused of kidnapping and assaulting children in another case.
The victim was interviewed by the police after the FIR was registered.
So far, three FIRs have been registered with the Rawat police against the suspect.
A labourer told police that he was at a petrol station in Bahria Town when a motorist, who was later identified as the suspect, offered him a job at his residence. He said he was made to sit in his case and was drugged and taken to the suspect’s house, where he was sexually abused.
An FIR was registered after a medical examination of the victim.
Police said DNA samples will be sent to the laboratory on Friday. They said the relatives of the victims must be assured regarding their protection and cases must be registered on their complaints. If parents are not willing to submit complaints due to social pressure, the police must adopt a legal process to register the case on their own complaint.
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[Asia Times] Batches of students left universities for the mainland via police ferry or bullet train, but evacuation denied
A ship from the Hong Kong police’s marine division emerged from the morning mist of Hong Kong’s Tolo Harbor at dawn on Wednesday and quietly berthed at a pier near the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in the New Territories where a group of students carrying suitcases had been waiting anxiously to board.
The boat soon cast off for a destination said to be a police facility close to the city’s border with mainland China, after constables inspected the identity documents of the students as only mainlanders were allowed onboard.
The seemingly covert police evacuation operation was carefully planned and carried out in the early hours, when most of the black-clad protesters – local CUHK students and outsiders – were still sleeping under the stars on a footbridge leading to the main entrance of the campus after a night of fierce battles with riot police involving Molotov cocktails, tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
More ferry rides to safety would be arranged for remaining mainland students at CUHK, and the police also confirmed during a press briefing Wednesday afternoon that they had deployed a boat to help non-local students who wished to leave the campus since main roads were all barricaded and the nearby train station was shut amid widespread vandalism.
The numerous mainland students who study at tertiary institutions in Hong Kong are packing up and leaving, flustered by the ongoing chaos that has spilled over onto their campuses and inevitably affected their lives when many merely wanted to stay out of the raging altercations.
Even the most apolitical ones are now wondering in trepidation if their continued stay at CUHK and other universities would be safe, and some were urged by their concerned parents to return home immediately.
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These f-----s mine my emails, my messages, my appointments. There are background apps that listen to my conversations. They are grabbing every behavioral input imaginable in order to figure out how to sell advertisements.
This business model is perverted. It's sick, broken.
Break up these bastards and put user consent and privacy -- not behaviorally-targeted advertising -- at the center of every digital experience.
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If they moved non-anonymised or non-aggregated data out of the companies systems and onto the google cloud then they probably did break the law.
Dumb!
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anonymise? You mean remove the name and leave the Medical Record Number, Address, DOB, etc... intact?
Anonymizing Medical data - It's hard to do it right.
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Impossible to anonymize medical data and still have it generate useful features for analysis. The family history, genetic footprint, medical history are essential. These uniquely identify a patient.
It is insane to allow for-profit, unregulated, non-medical non-specialty firms to even touch medical data.
[Fox News] President Trump has granted clemency to two Army officers accused or convicted of war crimes and restored Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher to the rank of chief petty officer after he was docked a pay grade after being convicted of posing for a photo with a dead Islamic State (ISIS) fighter, the White House announced Friday.
Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance could be released from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as soon as Friday evening, six years after being found guilty of second-degree murder. Maj. Matt Golsteyn, a former Green Beret, will have the murder charge against him dropped.
"Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) for Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance, an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) for Army Major Mathew Golsteyn, and an order directing the promotion of Special Warfare Operator First Class Edward R. Gallagher to the grade of E-7, the rank he held before he was tried and found not guilty of nearly all of the charges against him," the White House said in a statement Friday night.
Lorance was six years into serving a 19-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth for ordering his soldiers to open fire and kill three men in Afghanistan. Lorence's supporters say he killed Taliban fighters. Nine members of his unit testified against him, saying the men were innocent.Gallagher, a 15-year SEAL whose case garnered national attention, was found not guilty of murdering an ISIS fighter in Iraq in 2017 but was convicted in July of a lesser charge of posing for a photo with the dead ISIS prisoner's corpse.
His punishment included a reduction in rank from chief petty officer to 1st class petty officer, which would have cost him about $200,000 in retirement funds. His family and defense team were fighting to have his rank restored.
"Restoring Eddie's rank is a sign of true leadership and shows how much the president cares about the men and women fighting on the ground -- and how wrong the bureaucratic brass of the Navy has been throughout this entire farce of a case," the Gallagher family recently told Fox News in response to reports that Trump might restore Gallagher's rank. "This is why our war fighters love this president."
"Letting Eddie retire as chief [petty officer] grants our family the dignity it is owed after two decades of fighting on the front lines of the War on Terror," they said. "Eddie has sacrificed so much, and we are so grateful the president recognizes this sacrifice and [could grant] Eddie the ability to retire in peace."
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Shit like this happens in this kind of war. To let the soldiers in front line carry the burden of guilt - after sending them out with impossible orders, is cowardice.
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After Malmedy, it was pretty much standard practice not to take any SS prisoners. The Canadians practiced the same process after Normandy and their similar contact with the SS. Once you set the standard, expect the same in return.
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I'm all for bringing back 'heads on pikes', something I don't think US forces have ever adopted, but probably should. Then the barbarians we fight and kill will have received the proper measure of respect. Which is, to be clear, NONE. I rather doubt this will be adopted (numerous issues, not the least of which we would have to add pikes to the inventory) but I can hope.
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not the least of which we would have to add pikes to the inventory
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Wow! Yet another reason to vote for Trump next year. I personally appreciate these brave men for protecting the freedoms I enjoy...and I don't at all appreciate desk-bound bureaucrats persecuting them for protecting me.
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If putsch comes to shoot, we know the army can be counted on.
'A good king is loved by both soldiers and citizens. The only ones who are uncomfortable with a king the citizens love are traitors. Most traitors will be officers and not swordsmen.' - ancient Indian treatise on statecraft
I have three grandchildren in the same school ‐ forth, third, and first grades. The school is only five years old, in a rapidly-growing Texas suburb. White kids are a minority, with a lot of Indians, Asians, and a few black kids. Something like 80% of the 500+ kids have a corresponding adult in the PTA or otherwise assisting at school ‐ very active adult participation. My wife and I went to a 2:05 p.m. school assembly Friday, to see my third-grade grandson sing.
The program was introduced as a thank you for our veterans. The kids were asked to be especially quiet and respectful, to honor those who have served. The colors were presented by the Cub Scouts (and a girls group, unknown to me). All rose to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the Texas Pledge. (Having finished our education outside the state, my wife and I did not know the Texas Pledge. It’s shorter, but similar to the one (U.S.) pledge I recited in the third grade.) Then everyone sang the Star-Spangled Banner. I thought we were off to a good start!
The kids sang a number of songs celebrating America. The only song I recognized was halfway through the program, when they twice repeated the chorus of George M. Cohen’s You’re a Grand Old Flag ‐ similar to A Kids Version. If you don’t remember the original, see Wikipedia
In between each song, several kids would line up to say 5-10 words about how much they appreciated America ‐ liberty, freedom, and equality were regular themes.
After a couple of other tunes, they finished the program with something called Fifty Nifty United States. There is also a YouTube version of that, of course - Fifty Nifty. All five grades sung it together, and were rocking out, using their arms to make the shapes of each letter of the states. Texas, of course, was shouted out, as the states were recited.
The group was reminded of the purpose of the assembly and veterans in the room were asked to stand. I saw three or four, including my grandson’s other Grandpa. All 550 kids turned around and saluted the vets, and shouted thank you!
It gives me hope.
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Yes. Hope.
Somewhere there must be prog teachers and admin having a hissy. But, they're not in charge.
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Yes. Hope.
Somewhere there must be prog teachers and admin having a hissy. But, they're not in charge.
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Bobby, I could hug ya... but I won't. So could my mom... and she would... but she can't. So you're safe. Seriously, thanks for this. Don't get much peer reinforcement for liking this stuff these days.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... previously called US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... "an imbecile" and "fool of low IQ" in May for calling their leader a dictator and tyrant.
North Korea's official KCNA news agency has launched a tirade against US Vice President Joe Biden in response to his unflattering comments about the country's leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... The news agency likened Biden to a "rabid dog" that will soon pass away and needs to be put down. The media outlet went on to say that the vice president was manifesting the "final stage of dementia".
It is not immediately clear what insult the media is referring to; however, Biden has been on record accusing President Trump of pandering to Kim, whom the former vice president called a "murderous dictator".
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but here they were especially accurate. 'Imbecile', 'fool of low IQ', and 'rabid dog' with dementia that needs putting down. All correct.
[WGNTV] CHICAGO ‐ A purported street-gang leader from suburban reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... who became radicalized in prison faces federal charges accusing him of seeking to provide money to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... snuffies in Syria, according to a complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
Jason Brown, the 37-year-old leader of the AHK gang, could be heard on secret FBI recordings speaking admiringly about beheadings by the Islamic State group, the 27-page complaint says. If someone insults the Prophet Mohammed, "his head gotta go," he is cited as saying.
AHK, which prosecutors say traffics drugs throughout the Chicago area, is comprised of former members of the Black P-Stone, Gangster Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers who converted to Islam, the court filings say. The gang requires all new members to convert.
Brown, who goes by Abdul Ja’Me, handed over $500 on three occasions this year to someone he believed would wire it to an Islamic State fighter, the complaint says. But the middleman was cooperating with authorities and the supposed bully boy was an undercover officer.
Brown also talked about traveling to territory controlled by the Islamic State group, the filings allege.
Arrested on Thursday, Brown is charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars. His detention hearing is scheduled for Nov. 21. Brown’s attorney, Nicholas Grapsas, declined comment Friday.
While in prison in Georgia on a gun conviction, Brown became an ardent follower of an Islamic scholar who called for Moslems to fight nonbelievers, the complaint says. After his release in 2018, he sought to persuade gang recruits to also back the Islamic State group.
The gang is based in suburban Bellwood, west of Chicago. Brown’s home address is in nearby Lombard.
Six other alleged members or associates of the AHK gang were also arrested Thursday. They face federal drugs charges.
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Everytime the Chinese/Russian/Cuban axis takes control of a country and its resources and industries, it's A Victory For the Indigenous Peoples. Every time they lose one, it's a Nefarious Western Plot To Seize Their Resources.
Well, if the world's going to be run like medieval Italian city states, shouldn't we at least play the game? It would give the CIA something to do besides agitating against Trump. They've been Not Fighting Back Against The Communists in South America for twenty years now.
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Well, if the world's going to be run like medieval Italian city states, shouldn't we at least play the game?
Our elites can try but they have lost the knowledge of how to play and win.
Since the end of the Cold War and the death of Sam Huntington, they stopped caring for or believing in power politics. They don't believe in The Great Game, or spheres of interest, or great power competition generally. They want Kumbaya-style, fairytale unicorn outcomes: Girl Power in Afghanistan! Three Cups of Tea! EU membership for the brutal shithole that is Ukraine etc
[NY Post] A Missouri man accused of supplying cash and military equipment to a now-deceased ISIS leader in Syria has been sentenced to eight years behind bars ‐ after which he will be deported to his native Bosnia.
Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 45, of St. Louis County, was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday after pleading guilty in April to providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to do so.
Hodzic had recruited a handful of his fellow Bosnian immigrants to help support Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a St. Louis man who moved to Syria in 2013, serving as an ISIS commander, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Pazara died the following year fighting for the terrorist group.
Hodzic sent cash and surplus US military uniforms as well as other surplus gear, combat boots, tactical gear, rangefinders and rifle scopes to Pazara and other third parties between 2013 and 2015, prosecutors charged.
He also received money from five co-defendants ‐ some of which went to Pazara, according to prosecutors.
Hodzic's attorney, Diane Dragan, pushed for a shorter sentence ‐ claiming her client mostly sent Pazara non-military supplies that he himself had valued while fighting in the Bosnian War, like socks, according to the Post-Dispatch.
He was once awarded the Golden Lily, Bosnia's highest military honor, during his own service, Dragan said.
She said that Hodzic had explained to his children he does not support the Islamic State, and had never spoke negatively about America.
"He is an individual who loves the United States," she said.
She emphasized that Hodzic "loved Abdullah like a brother," according to the report.
"He mentored him from a drug addict to sobriety," she added, but admitted that Pazara "changed" during his time in Syria.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Drake argued that Hodzic was aware of Pazara's role as an Islamic State leader of as many as 250 troops, the paper reported. Pazara bragged about murder and beheadings and advocated for slavery, the paper reported.
Hodzic has agreed to be deported to Bosnia following his release from prison.
Five of the six original co-defendants ‐ including Hodzic's wife, Sedina Unkic Hodzic, who has yet to be sentenced ‐ have pleaded guilty in federal court.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] In reaction to continuing mass protests that began Oct. 1, the Supreme Judicial Council is reviewing the Iraqi Constitution and will submit proposed amendments to parliament ‐ though protesters fear that will only delay action on their demands.
Parliament has formed an Amendment Committee that is to complete its recommendations within four months, aiming to answer protesters’ demands for reforms to end corruption and the electoral quota system, which is based on religious and ethnic affiliations.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... suggesting that the primary aim of the popular protests is for the government to amend the constitution is ironic, as they are calling for the current government to resign before elections are organized under a new law with UN supervision. Protesters accuse the current government of being corrupt and illegitimate, citing low election turnout, ballot boxes being set on fire and results being forged.
"The protesters in Baghdad have rejected the parliament’s Amendment Committee because [committee] members are from parties and sectarian blocs that contributed to ruining the country. We have taken to the streets to remove them from power and it's unreasonable to accept them as politicians for the next stage," Naim al-Shuwaili, a civil activist in Baghdad said.
"The priority should be for a new election law that adopts direct individual voting and multiconstituency elections under full UN supervision. The future parliament will be the one to amend the constitution. ... The current parliament is discussing constitutional amendments with the aim of wasting time and delaying the discussion of a fair electoral bill."
Regarding the call for a new election law, Iraqi President Barham Salah and the Cabinet this week each drew up drafts for one and may combine their proposals, according to the state-run Iraqi News Agency.
The president's version calls for reducing the number of parliament members, allowing for younger candidates and forming a new electoral commission without using the quota system on which the current commission was formed. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the next stop for the proposals is the same parliament the protesters reject.
As for constitutional amendments, the various political blocs have expressed three differing stances. Shiites want to convert the parliamentary political system to a presidential one. Kurds want to preserve their political gains, especially those related to disputed areas. Sunnis, meanwhile, seek to maintain the parliamentary quota system, which is designed to ensure that their representatives are allotted a percentage of ministerial positions, as well as the speaker of parliament position.
According to a Nov. 7 statement by Amendment Committee member Rashid al-Azzawi, the most important proposals to be discussed are determining whether to go with a parliamentary or presidential system; Article 76, which addresses the power of the largest political bloc; whether governors should be directly elected by the people or by provincial councils; and determining the fate of provincial councils if they are kept.
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[DAILYTRUST.NG] The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has neutralised some of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters at Malam Fatori, on the fringes of the Lake Chad, Northern Borno. The NAF said this was in a joint counter-offensive operation mounted by the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, and troops of 89 and 97 Task Force Battalions of Sector 3, at Malam Fatori.
Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, who made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted on Wednesday.
"The routing of the murderous Moslems took place Nov. 13, sequel to the receipt of intelligence reports on the movement of ISWAP fighters in some gun trucks towards the troops’ location in Malam Fatori.
"In response, the ATF immediately scrambled two Nigerian Air Force attack aircraft to provide Close Air Support (CAS), as well as an Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform, which provided enhanced situational awareness for the ground troops as they engaged the terrorists. "The combined, sustained, intensive fire rained on the terrorists, from the air and on the ground, caused them to make a hasty retreat. "This was, however, not before two of their gun trucks were destroyed."
There can't be a connection between constant attacks by Bezo's Washington Post on non-Antifa government and Bezo's Amazon contacts?
[Asia Times] Amazon on Thursday challenged the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, alleging “unmistakable bias” in the process.
The 10-year contract for theJoint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program, better known as JEDI, ultimately will see all military branches sharing information in a system boosted by artificial intelligence.
“It’s critical for our country that the government and its elected leaders administer procurements objectively and in a manner that is free from political influence,” a spokesperson for Amazon Web Services said.
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Microsoft are more professional than any slacks and spectacles bunch of techno yuppies out there. For decades they've produced reliable, feasible software solutions and support to most govts the world over.
Amazon is run by lickspittle political hacks, it could be populated by an unknown number of unhinged elements from the left. What happens when a 'concerned' systems admin goes woke and halts a critical launch, throws a spanner into target acquisition networks, if someone from the company holds the network to ransom over secret info, leaks info to the MSM...
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An unmentioned part of all this is that Amazon is currently under investigation for various anti-trust violations, while Microsoft is not... at least not anymore. The federal government could easily have chosen not to place a bid with a company whose activities are under active investigation.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Pakistain on Friday began vaccinating millions of children against typhoid fever, a dangerous bacterial infection that can spread through contact or contaminated food and water, in an effort to contain a drug-resistant outbreak of the disease that has infected around 11,000 people since 2016.
The new vaccine that is being distributed can prevent typhoid fever infection for up to five years. Health practitioners began administering the shot in the southern Sindh province to children aged between nine months and 15 years old, Rooters reported. Officials plan for the new vaccine to become part of routine childhood immunizations by 2021.
"Beginning the vaccination in urban areas is critical in preventing the disease among the communities most at risk," Azra Fazal Pechuho, Sindh’s provincial minister for health, said in a statement, Rooters reported.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the Salmonella Typhi bacteria.
Symptoms include weakness, stomach pain, headache, diarrhea or constipation, cough and loss of appetite. It can also cause pink spots on the chest. The disease is especially threatening to children in developing countries.
Typhoid is spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person. So wash your hands regularly with soap when you go to such countries, and don’t drink the water.
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India developed the first extreme drug resistant typhoid vaccine in 2012 in collaboration with France. In 2016, the Paki's requested a specifically tailored intramuscular TCV and we supplied. This is the same Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine.
XDR typhoid's been killing Pak citizens for nearly a decade; it's only being noticed and countered now under Imran Khan's govt. The stupid jamaats are at it again, trying to topple that govt, while their maulanas tell the people not to take vaccines at all.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Speaking about the Indian government's move to revoke Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's special autonomous status through an act of parliament, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has reiterated again that Kashmir is a "matter of ideological debate and liberal fundamentalism".
Participating in an interaction after delivering the fourth Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture on Thursday evening in India’s capital city of New Delhi, Jaishankar said foreign media criticism of the government's recent decisions on Kashmir were uninformed and devoid of merit.
Unambiguously identifying "the English-speaking liberal media (in the West) commentary on Kashmir as one of New Delhi’s biggest challenges", the Indian foreign minister said: "My reputation is not decided by a newspaper in New York".
For the most part, foreign media outlets have failed to present a fair picture of recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir, and as a result, the Indian government has faced some difficulty explaining its decision to repeal sections of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution with regard to Jammu and Kashmir to diplomats and foreign countries, Jaishankar admitted.
"As we move decisively to combat separatism in Jammu and Kashmir, there is some talk of its internationalisation and hyphenation of our ties with Pakistain. This is thinking from the past, reflecting neither the strength of India, the mood of the nation nor the determination of the government", Jaishankar said during his lecture.
He argued Western media, by and large, has strong pre-set views on Kashmir but did not cite specific examples of unfair coverage.
The international media have reported instances of alleged human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations in Indian-administered Kashmir after New Delhi revoked the special status of the region on 5 August.
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Not just the media. The American HoR seems intent on an international projection all its own. They've bypassed the Prez anyway, with Pelosi and lowly congressmen representing American deepState interests to other countries frequently.
They may not be the world's police, but the HoR does think it represents America better than Trump. Usually, the Prez's word is enough for a country's stand on a foreign issue. And the democrat party would be fine with the Kashmir thing any other time. Only if Trump did not favour the Indian stance. And western media is just the Left's mouthpiece really.
[DW] The local media council said Arabic programing would add to the diversity of radio offerings in the German capital. Arabs from more than 20 countries live in Berlin.
Berlin will soon have its first Arabic-language radio station to reach more than 100,000 Arabs living in the German capital.
The MABB media council for Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg announced the approval of Radio Arabica on Thursday.
Radio Arabica's programing will cover life in Berlin, culture, news, comedy and sport. It will also play a mix of Arabic folk music, pop and modern music.
Hansjurgen Rosenbauer, the head of the MABB media council, praised the expansion of "diversity" in the radio landscape.
"Alongside a French, Russian, Ottoman Turkish, British and American radio show, there will now be an offering for the Arabic population," Rosenbauer said.
Berlin has had an Arab population since 1960s and 1970s, when then West Germany brought in Moroccans as "guest workers" to help rebuild the post-World War II economy.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Lebanese and Paleostinians fled to Germany during the Leb's civil war.
The Iraq war in the 2000s and post-2015 migrant influx brought more Arabs to the capital, mostly from Syria and Iraq.
According to statistics from 2017, there are around 133,000 people with an Arab background from more than 20 countries living in Berlin. That accounts for about 4% of the capital's population.
[Air Force Magazine] Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney have largely re-assigned manufacture of the 850 F-35 fighter parts made by Turkey to themselves and a few other US-based companies, with about 20 percent to be built by overseas partners, company officials said Nov. 13.
In testimony before the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee, Lockheed F-35 Vice President and General Manager Greg Ulmer said the majority of parts made by Turkey‐which is being drummed out of the F-35 program over that country’s purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system‐have been "re-sourced ... within the US supply chain." He later said the proportion is about 80 percent, with most of those to be built by Lockheed itself. Another 20 percent will be made by overseas partners who are already "making identical parts." He did not specify companies or items.
Matthew Bromberg, president of Pratt & Whitney Military Engines, which makes the F135 powerplant for the Lightning II, said a similar proportion of engine parts has been brought back in house at the company, with the rest of the work going to overseas partners.
"We’re not quite there, yet," Program Executive Officer Lt. Gen. Eric Fick testified. A new source is still being sought for 11 aircraft components and for "one integrated rotor" on the engine, he noted.
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When are we going to "re-source" our nukes out of Turkey. The nukes have been openly touted as hostages by Erdogan.
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Erdogan calling our nukes his hostages reminds me of that scene in A Bronx Tale, 'Now youse can't leave.' He should be careful of what he wishes for.
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Recent development: U.S., Turkish, Spanish, Qatari service members from across the base render a salute during the Ataturk Memorial Day Ceremony Nov. 10, 2019, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. The ceremony brought members from across the base together to honor Ataturk, the founder and first president of modern Turkey.
Can anyone provide proof positive that Incirlik houses nuclear weapons?
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It would be very hilarious if the pits were taken away and at some point Turkey seizes a heavily guarded bunker full of empty bomb casings.
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IIRC nukes need to be routinely rotated for periodic maintenance. Something about He-3. It'd be a shame if the nukes being rotated were replaced with dummies.
[Asia Times] White House bid puts focus on Bloomberg’s media. Former New York mayor might sell his data & news organization to avoid conflict.
Michael Bloomberg’s likely run for the presidency would create a hornet’s nest of practical and ethical problems for his company, which as one of the world’s biggest news organizations would be thrust into coverage of its owner.
A campaign could set up unusual challenges for the privately owned firm Bloomberg LP and its Bloomberg News division, which employs some 2,400 journalists, including 1,000 in Washington, and includes online and television media operations.
While the news group managed Bloomberg’s tenure as New York mayor from 2002 to 2013 without any major incident, a presidential run, successful or not, would require a strict firewall, say media analysts.
[NYPOST] An Arizona deputy wrestled a 15-year-old quadruple amputee to the ground at a group home in Tucson, disturbing footage of the incident shows. Whoa! Heroic lawn forcement officer story!
The unidentified Pima County Sheriff’s deputy encountered the teen, Immanuel, on Sept. 26 while responding to a report that he had kicked over a garbage can and verbally threatened an employee, KOLD reports. How's a quadruple amputee kick anything? I guess maybe he uses one of his wooden legs. Threatened the employee? Was he gonna bite him?
Another teen inside the home then started recording the incident on his cellphone, an eight-minute interaction during which the deputy tried to forcefully subdue the teen amputee as he repeatedly shouted and demanded to be let go.
“Don’t f–king hold me down!” the teen screamed, video shows. Just leave him. How's he gonna get up?
The deputy then rolled the teen onto his stomach as he demanded to be released. At another point, after the teen stopped resisting, the deputy yelled into Immanuel’s face, asking why he didn’t comply with his commands sooner, video shows. “I will raise my voice to you whenever the f–k I want, you understand?” the deputy screamed. Do they really teach that in Deputies' Academy?
“Hey, you asked him a question,” the teen recording the interaction replied. “He answered.” So now the other amputee kid's in the soup with him?
The deputy then approached the second teen, a 16-year-old boy, Toldja so.
and told him to “shut the hell up” before both juveniles were arrested on disorderly conduct charges, according to KOLD, which obtained the footage on Thursday. "Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Gimme my legs back!"
A public defender representing the quadruple amputee said he wanted to make sure that no one else in group homes was treated the way he was on the footage. Amputees, even quadruple amputees, can be just as bratty as anybody else. I'm still of the opinion that police officers should be courteous to citizens even if they're about to shoot them.
“He wanted to talk,” public defender Sam Jurgena told the station. “He wanted to have the video on the news because he wanted to make sure something good comes from this.” "Something good" would have been not kicking the garbage can with his stump. "Something just as good" would have been Deputy Friendly being civil to the brat.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office was unaware of the footage prior to its release by the Pima County Public Defender and an internal investigation has been launched into the deputy’s conduct, KOLD reports. "Footage? What footage?"
The incident would have likely never been exposed if not for the quick-thinking teen – identified as C.J. – who recorded the encounter. Charges against C.J. have also been dropped, Pima County Public Defender Joel Fineman told the Washington Post. Recording a deputy is not disorderly conduct, though kicking a garbage can with your stump might very well be.
“These are kids who live in a group home because they can’t live with their parents,” Fineman said. “This is exactly the type of person that law enforcement needs to protect and defend. Instead we see them being treated like they’re animals.” All the amputees I've ever known have been on average as decent or indecent as anyone else. If they couldn't live with their parents there was probably a reason.
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"... so I tasered 'im to stop his foul mouth from offendin' bystanders, your honor. The lawyer'll make you think this legless man is also harmless. Truth is, this waddlin' monstrosity here cusses like a sarsaparilla drinkin' summbitch with mammy issues."
[Asia Times]Taiwanese living and working in Hong Kong will get help from their government with carriers asked to prepare for an evacuation
Taiwanese papers also reported that the island’s authorities had also requested China Airlines and EVA Air to stand by to quickly deploy wide-body jets to airlift not only the students but also Taiwanese residents who work or live in Hong Kong.
Wide-body jets carry up to 850 passenger seats...
A flight between Hong Kong and Taipei as well as other key cities on the island is only a 70-minute hop, so a passenger jet could fly two round trips without the need to refuel, enabling a swift evacuation should the situation in Hong Kong deteriorate.
In very round numbers, that’s 2,000 people standing in the aisles and possibly 7.5 hours (load-fly-unload-fly back-load-fly-unload) between refuelings. Plus refueling time...
A contingency plan was made overnight when international news agenciesincluding Agence France-Presse reported on Thursday that the Hong Kong government was on the cusp of announcing a curfew banning all residents from going outside or joining rallies at night, starting from the coming weekend, citing a tweet by the Beijing-based Global Times which was deleted not long after it was published.
It is estimated that close to 80,000 Taiwanese now live in Hong Kong, mostly through marriage or employment.
80,000 divided by 2,000 is 40 double trips. Each double trip will take approximately 7.5 hours plus refueling, for a total of 300 hours plus refueling time unless they refuel and hose out the cabins even as the passengers disembark...
[LEGALINSURRECTION] At around 12:30 a.m. on May 1, Respondents and Clark Circuit Court Magistrate William Dawkins (“Magistrate Dawkins”) met at a local bar, where they continued to drink alcohol. At around 3:00 a.m., the group walked to a strip club and tried to enter, but found that it was closed.
The group then walked to a nearby White Castle. While Magistrate Dawkins went inside, Respondents stood outside the restaurant. At around 3:17 a.m., Alfredo Vazquez and Brandon Kaiser drove past the group and shouted something out the window. Judge Bell extended her middle finger to Vazquez and Kaiser, who pulled into the White Castle parking lot and exited the vehicle. Judge Bell, who was intoxicated, has no memory of the incident but concedes that the security camera video shows her making this gesture.
A heated verbal altercation ensued, with all participants yelling, using profanity, and making dismissive, mocking, or insolent gestures toward the other group. At no time did Respondents move to another location in the parking lot to avoid a confrontation or de-escalate the conflict.
After a verbal exchange between Judge Bell and Vazquez, a physical confrontation ensued. At one point, Judge Jacobs had Kaiser contained on the ground. With his fist raised back, Judge Jacobs said, “Okay, okay, we’re done, we’re done,” or “This is over. Tell me this is over,” or words to that effect. At another point during the confrontation, Judge Adams kicked Kaiser in the back. The confrontation ended when Kaiser pulled out a gun, shot Judge Adams once, and shot Judge Jacobs twice.
Adams received “two emergency surgeries, including a colon resectioning.” Jacobs stayed in the hospital for 14 days after his two emergency surgeries.
Adams had a blood alcohol level of 0.213. Jacobs’ blood alcohol level peaked at 0.177.
Bell did not have hers tested, but officials knew she had a few drinks because she could not remember the incident.
Authorities charged Kaiser “with 14 crimes, including eight felony charges — four of which are Level 3 felony aggravated assault.”
His nephew, Vazquez, “faces six counts of low-level felony and misdemeanor charges, including two counts of Level 6 felony battery.”
The Indiana Supreme Court concluded that the judges “engaged in judicial misconduct by appearing in public in an intoxicated state and behaving in an injudicious manner and by becoming involved in a verbal altercation.”
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It's not the Babylon Bee, kids. It's THE SHITSHOW.
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Dunno. Would you rather be charged with "creating a public disturbance" in front of one of these guys, or some Mini-mike Blomberg III type with a stick up his robes?
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How odd. Early TV "reporting" prominently featured easily recognisable video of Judge Bell but inexplicably failed to identify her. Same for at least one report from several days after the "proceedings."
[DAILYWIRE] On Thursday, President Trump flipped another U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into a conservative majority, as the Senate confirmed the nomination of White House attorney Steven Menashi to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals now has seven judges appointed by Republican presidents and six by Democrats. Democrats flailed about in hysteria over the Menashi nomination, in which he was confirmed 51-41 in a party line vote only excepted by Susan Collins of Maine, who voted against Menashi.
Menashi, 40, was viciously attacked by Democrats; Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 43.94454725489264 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... raged, "Mr. Menashi is one of the most contemptible nominees to come before the Senate in all my time in this body. He would be a disgrace, a disgrace to the seat once held by the great Thurgood Marshall."
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The Second Circuit is a biggie, since it handles appeals from all of the federal district courts in New York. But I'm not so sure that being nominated by a Republican makes you a conservative.
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[TRIBUNEONLINENG] The House of Representatives, on Thursday, approved the commencement of "Operation Positive Identification" across the country as initiated by the Nigerian Army.The resolution was passed by the House after the adoption of recommendations of the House Committee on Army presented by Hon. Abdulrasak Namdas, at the Committee of the Whole chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Idris Wase.
According to the 11-page report submitted by the Committee, "the operation will be intelligence-led and gear toward arresting holy warriors and collaborators, some of which we are already done. Furthermore, it is to rid the FCT and cities of the remnant of holy warriors who have escaped the heat of the bombardment."
In his lead debate, Hon. Namdas disclosed that one of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... commandants was arrested by the Nigerian Army in the course of implementation of Operation Positive Identification aimed at curtailing the movement of Boko Haram criminal elements, sympathizers and logistics suppliers as well as bandidos, kidnappers, armed robbers,cattle rustlers and other criminals elements fleeing from the North East due to troops’ sustained bombardment and moving to safer areas of the country to perpetrate their heinous crimes.
Pleased by the successes recorded by the Nigerian Army in the previous anti-insurgent exercises carried out, the House resolved that: "The Army can continue with the Operation Positive Identification but in collaboration with other relevant security agencies, such as Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Police who should take the lead in the identification process.
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[DAWN] At least two Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) personnel were martyred and five others injured in a kaboom in Quetta’s Kuchlak area on Friday evening, security officials said.
The security personnel's vehicle was targeted in an improvised bomb (IED) blast in the old Kuchlak Bypass area, a security official who declined to be named told DawnNewsTV.
The FC personnel were on routine patrol in the area when they were targeted, the official said. The injured were rushed to a hospital in Quetta for treatment.
Last month, law enforcement agencies personnel were targeted twice in the city. At least two coppers and as many civilians were maimed in an IED blast on Quetta's Spinny Road on October 21.
On October 15, a Rapid Response Force sniper was martyred and 10 others ‐ five security personnel and as many civilians ‐ were maimed in a kaboom that rocked Quetta's busy Double Road area.
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[THEHILL] The House Ethics Committee ...think of a nudibranch pretending to be a vertebrate... revealed on Thursday that it is investigating Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) over whether his relationship with a member of his staff breaks House rules.
Hastings has admitted to being in a relationship with his aide, Patricia Williams, who serves as his deputy district director.
The committee is now investigating whether Hastings violated House rules with that relationship and if he received any improper gifts from that employee. like Nookie?
The House last year adopted a rule preventing members of Congress from having a sexual relationship with a member of their staff.
"The Committee is aware of public allegations arising out of Representative Alcee Hastings’ personal relationship with an individual employed in his congressional office," House Ethics Committee Chairman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and the panel's ranking Republican, Rep. Kenny Marchant (Texas), said in a joint statement, without identifying the staffer.
The statement said that the committee had begun an investigation on May 14, but did not reveal it publicly until Thursday.
Hastings has dismissed ethical concerns about his relationship, telling the Palm Beach Post "it’s been looking like that for 25 years" according to a story published last month.
Williams previously served as counsel to Hastings when he was accused of accepting bribes as a federal judge in the 1980s. Hastings was later impeached.
[Breitbart] Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch compared herself to the diplomats and contractors killed in Benghazi in her opening statement in the second public impeachment inquiry on Friday.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] According to the security service, the commander, who held the post of deputy military amir in ISIS since 2013, illegally arrived in Ukraine using a fake passport in 2018 and continued to coordinate the activities of ISIS forces.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) on Friday announced the detention of Georgian citizen Al Bara Shishani, a key commander of the ISIS* terrorist organization, in the Kiev region.
"As a result of a joint special operation of the Security Service of Ukraine with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the US Central Intelligence Agency in the Kiev region, one of the key leaders of the ISIS terrorist organization was detained," the SBU press service said in a statement.
Georgia's State Security Service of Georgia has confirmed the detention near Kiev of Georgian national Al Bara Shishani.
"We confirm the fact of Shishani's detention," the press service of the Georgian State Security Service stated without providing any details.
In October, President Trump announced that the leader of the ISIS* terrorist group Abu Bakr Baghdadi had been killed during the US-raid in Idlib. The number one terrorist was reportedly under the Pentagon's surveillance for quite some time before the conditions were ripe to eliminate him.
Baghdadi went kaboom! along with two children when he was cornered by the US military in his hideout in northern Syria, according to US officials.
Baghdadi’s immediate likely successor, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, was killed in a US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... a day later.
Shishani, whose birth name was Cezar Tokhosashvili, joined IS in 2015. He became deputy to Abu Omar al-Shishahi,
... “the father of Omar the Chechen”...
known to the Pentagon as the IS "minister of war," who was killed in combat in 2016.
...more precisely, he was airstruck by the US-led Coalition in Syria.
Both men were born in the mountainous Pankisi region of Georgia home to most of Georgia's ethnic Chechens, known as Kists. Shishani is an Arabic transliteration of Chechen.
After Abu Omar al-Shishahi's death, Al Bara Shishani was said to have crossed into Turkey and crossed last year into Ukraine on a false passport. From there, he continued to coordinate the activities of Islamic State, the SBU said.
"Currently, the terrorist is under extradition arrest. His involvement in crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine is currently being verified," the SBU said, without verifying.
An Nahar has a photo of the happy jihadi, head and face flowing with an abundance of silky brown locks.
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I hope Trump did't ask for him too be detained. That would be another reason for impeachment I'm sure.
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] Suspected ISIS* sympathiser Anis Amri killed 12 and maimed dozens more when he rammed a truck into a Christmas market in the German capital in 2016. A bombshell testimony by a German policeman in the country’s parliament suggests that authorities, including officials at the very top, simply let things slide.
A criminal chief inspector from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has raised mishandling allegations against the German Interior Ministry and the German Criminal Police Office, along with its Berlin branch, in his testimony to the investigative committee of the deadly 2016 terrorist attack on the Christmas market in Berlin.
The man, whose identity remains concealed, reportedly said during questioning in the German parliament that an official from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) had told him that NRW's informant who had alerted Sherlocks about the attacker-to-be Anis Amri before, "creates too much work". The conversation allegedly happened on the side-lines of a meeting at the Federal Attorney General’s Office on 23 February 2016, months before the terror attack.
He reportedly also told the witness that this opinion was shared at the "very top". Asked about who was meant by "top", the official allegedly said that it was the Interior Ministry ‐ or its then-head Thomas de Maizière, a member of Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... ’s Christian Democratic Union ‐ and the senior criminal director of the BKA's State Protection Department.
According to the policeman, this conversation left him "stunned and shocked", prompting him to reach out to two prosecutors right away. He was reportedly under the impression that his colleague from the BKA, known to be a very competent official, had conveyed this opinion about Amri in the same way as it was given to him.
Berlin Overlooked the Danger?
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cites the NRW policeman as saying that his office had made it clear to the central office and their colleagues in Berlin, where Amri often was at the time, that the informant was credible and had been working for them for many years.
"If an informant, who was the only source of signals about the danger from Anis Amri, had been silenced, and if it was on the interior minister’s initiative, that would be a shattering scandal", Chairman of the Investigation Committee Benjamin Strasser said, noting that the questioning of ex-Interior Minister de Maizière has now become inevitable.
[DAWN] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... can never come back and establish their emirate as the Afghan women would never accept it, Afghanistan’s First Lady Rula Ghani said Thursday.
Speaking at the US Institute of Peace Mrs Ghani also emphasised the need to negotiate a durable peace accord. "Peace is a long process," she said. "Whoever thinks it can happen in one or two months is wrong. Even if happens it will be shortlived."
The Afghan First Lady disagreed with the assumption that a peace deal would restore the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. "We want peace because the Taliban are Afghans and have the right to be in Afghanistan, but a Taliban rule is not going to happen, not under my watch. Not as long as, my husband and I are there."
Mrs Ghani said that there were between 20 to 40,000 Taliban outside Afghanistan and "some families inside" in a country of 36 million people, and that’s why they could not restore their emirate.
The need, she said, was to encourage Afghans to "get out of the mentality of violence and come back to a more natural way" of settling disputes. In Afghanistan, "even marital disputes lead to wars between families," she added.
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